Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature

Raluca Radulescu is Professor of Medieval English Literature and Director of the Centre for Arthurian Studies at Bangor University, Wales, UK. She is currently the elected Vice-President of the International Arthurian Society. Her research and publications focus on all aspects of medieval literature and studies, particularly on Arthurian and non-Arthurian romance, Thomas Malory, gentry studies, chronicles (including the Middle English Brut and genealogies) and manuscript culture. She has published two monographs (2003 and 2013) and eleven collections of co-edited essays, among them Insular Books: Vernacular Manuscript Miscellanies in Medieval Britain (2015), co-ed. with Margaret Connolly. She is currently writing a book on the Middle English Prose Brut and co-editing, with Andrew Lynch, the Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture (CHALC) in 2 volumes.Sif Rikhardsdottir is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland and Head of the Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts. She works on cross-cultural transmission and literary histories, comparative literary theory, gender, literary emotions, and voice in medieval European literature. Her publications include Medieval Translations and Cultural Discourse: The Movement of Texts in England, France and Scandinavia (2012); Emotion in Old Norse: Translations, Voices, Contexts (2017); and most recently the Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre (2019), co-edited with Carolyne Larrington and Massimiliano Bampi. Her co-edited volume Medieval Literary Voices: Embodiment, Materiality and Performance (with Louise D’Arcens) is forthcoming. She has held Visiting Fellowships or Professorships at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and St John’s College, University of Oxford.

• Medieval English Literature: A trans-European Literary HistoryRaluca Radulescu and Sif RikhardsdottirPART I:THE FORMS OF LITERATURE: INTRODUCTIONRaluca Radulescu and Sif Rikhardsdottir Orality, Vocality, and TextualityKarl Reichl VernacularityWendy Scase Books and MaterialityJ. R. Mattison and Alexandra Gillespie Form and GenreJulie OrlemanskiPART II: INSULAR BORDERS AND LINGUISTIC INTERACTIONS: INTRODUCTIONRaluca Radulescu Middle WelshHelen Fulton IrishAisling Byrne ScottishCaitlin Flynn Multilingualism Ad PutterPART III: LITERARY GATEWAYS: INTRODUCTIONSif Rikhardsdottir ‘Travel’ of the Mind via Study: translatio studii et imperii Elizaveta Strakhov ‘Travel’ of the Soul via Religiosity: Imaginary and Actual PilgrimagesRyan Perry French-Speaking Courts and Literary Dominance in EuropeKeith Busby The Norman RuleLaura Ashe The Venetian Gateway: Commerce, Plague, Oriental MotifsSif Rikhardsdottir Origination and Mediation: SicilyDavid Wallace Islamic Pathways and Imaginary BordersShirin A. Khanmohamadi Mercantile NetworksCraig E. Bertolet Maps and the Medieval World at LargeMatthew Boyd GoldiePART IV: MIDDLE ENGLISH TEXTS AND TRADITIONS: INTRODUCTIONRaluca Radulescu The Endurance of Early English Literary TraditionsOrietta Da Rold Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Chronicle TraditionJaclyn Rajsic Marie de France and Middle English Romance Cory James Rushton Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Alliterative TraditionLawrence Warner Geoffrey ChaucerMarion Turner John GowerSiân Echard William Langland: European Poet?Marco Nievergelt Hoccleve and Lydgate: Transnationalism and TraditionSebastian J. Langdell Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and Female SpiritualityLaura Kalas The Middle English Lyrics in Their European Context Christiania Whitehead Medieval English Drama and PerformanceCharlotte Steenbrugge Thomas MaloryRaluca Radulescu HagiographyKaren A. WinsteadPART V: THE MODERN MIDDLE AGES: INTRODUCTIONSif Rikhardsdottir EmotionAndrew Lynch RaceWan-Chuan Kao Gender/Queer Laura Saetveit Miles and Samantha Katz Seal PostcolonialismPatricia Clare Ingham and Abby Ang EcocriticismMichael J. Warren Human/AnimalKarl Steel MedievalismDavid Matthews